Milarepa Quotes

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

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• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

  

  Perry Christie
  • People
  • Suffering

• It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Suffering

• The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Up
  • Live
  • City

• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

  

  Andrew Coyle Bradley
  • Good
  • Character
  • Death

• Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Great
  • Suffering

• There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Suffering

• Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • Culture
  • Suffering

• Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.

  

  Peter Hargreaves
  • Country
  • Money
  • Help

• Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Humanity
  • Suffering
  • Laughter

• Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dream

• There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Suffering

• In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

  

  Mechai Viravaidya
  • Family
  • Suffering
  • Planning

• --I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed of any charm. "Don't worry," I told it. "Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming." I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between ones's footwear. --POV is Myrnin, page 221

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Bad
  • Water
  • Suffering

• Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Change
  • Climate
  • Amount

• The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Time
  • Free

• You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

  

  Milarepa
  • Suffering
  • Buddhism
  • Fangs